HERE ARE SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER

THINGS WE'RE PROUD OF

Which the team repays with solid, loyal, creative work. And dumb "working from home" emails.

Our interfaces work as we design them to, and seldom fail.

THINGS WE'RE ASHAMED OF

The office elevator is very slow.

We all called in sick on the same day, and went skiing.

One of our creative directors drives a pickup truck.

That was dishonest, we're proud of that. Sorry.

We go on and on about our dev team, who may or may not be tinkering with this text.

This is a superfluous point because our shame list was shorter than our pride list.

We're about to brag, which is shameful. Members of our team were instrumental in helping big brands pioneer and perfect online branding and eCommerce. Brands like Rolex, Shaw and Clorox. And others. Forgive the outburst.

Meet Our Team

We told a hilarious knock-knock joke to get them to smile. Bill, Jim and Allard didn't get it. Can you see the confusion and anger in their eyes?

Dan Evans

Managing Partner

Dan has over 20 years of experience in the world of traditional and interactive advertising, heading the client service, strategy and creative functions across a wide range of client engagements. Since leaving Critical Mass, where he was president for many years, Dan has served Evans Hunt as co-founder, leader, evangelist, business strategist and creative thinker.

Numerous decades ago, Dan obtained his Civil Engineering Degree from Queen's University. His parents are still waiting to see some return on that investment.

Bill Hunt

Managing Partner

Bill has over 15 years experience in interactive advertising and technology. He has a broad range of experience from multiple startups, public sector consulting, and most recently serving as Senior Vice President at Critical Mass. During his eight year tenure there he oversaw Client Services, as well as Global Production Strategy for multiple offices across three continents.

Bill has consulted for and worked directly with clients such as Mercedes-Benz, Valvoline, CIBC, UFA, and Industry Canada. He is known for his straightforward and direct style that clients appreciate, especially when the pressure is on.

Taro Ramberg

Managing Director

Taro is a true digital native with 17+ years experience dedicated to digital thought leadership. Well-versed in driving client engagement with the world’s leading companies, Taro has a proven history of helping small offices bring to market meaningful products and services.

After a successful run with two top digital agencies – Critical Mass and Huge – Taro jumped at the opportunity to help his longtime friends, Dan and Bill, to establish a US presence for Evans Hunt.

A two-time Ultimate Frisbee national and world champion, Taro is often found on the golf course, where he is neither a national nor world champion.

Jim Button

Strategist

Jim is adept at making friends — so much so that we ask him to do it on behalf of clients. He connects people and businesses with marketing ideas that encourage consumer participation and turn passive audiences into communities.

For over 20 years Jim has been a leader in experiential marketing, serving in executive roles for groups including Big Rock Brewery, the Event Group (which he co-founded), Venture Communications, MacLaren:Lintas, Cossette Communications and JWR.

Aw, does any of that even matter? The guy started Village Brewery and brings us free beer.

Michael Tran

Creative Director

What's it like being Michael Tran? German philosophers and graffiti artists debate this very question over back-alley cigarettes. (We hired them.) What they don't realize is, Michael occupies some kind of Zen midpoint between their two mindsets. Oh, he's thoughtful, like the graffiti artist, but also an iconoclast, which is a word the philosopher made up to justify his bloated paycheck. (Hey Friedrich: you're fired.)

An entrepreneur in his own right, Michael helped build the agency Zero Gravity as managing director and creative director, where he continued to consolidate and expand his sweater collection.

Rob Sawchuk

Creative Director

Interactive design has been Rob's sole focus for a decade and a half, during which time he's racked up a portfolio of international brands like Nike, VisitLasVegas.com and Mercedes-Benz as well as local favourites including Shaw Communications, Tourism Calgary and Big Rock Beer.

Oh, and hey, does your creative director own a crab fishing boat in Alaska? If so, Rob would like to meet her — and possibly go tradesies for his urban clothing company, which is almost as cool as crab fishing and only half as deadly.

Allard Losier

Director, Technology

Allard is an experienced technical architect who has been leading teams and analyzing, designing and delivering Internet based solutions for over 15 years.

Allard has been involved in designing and deploying eCommerce solutions and evaluating project and team structures for our clients. In his past life he was the Vice President of Technology at Critical Mass where he was responsible for 80+ technology staff across North America. “Responsible” you say? Allard? It's a figure of speech.

Mark Heard

Director, User Experience & Content Strategy

Mark has worked for more than a decade in the fields of user experience architecture and content strategy. These days he maps out digital experiences that help different users do different things, in the fewest number of clicks. At Evans Hunt, Mark has led the user experience design of new websites for Big Rock, Calgary Economic Development, Tourism Calgary and Shaw.

Previously Mark worked overseas for the UN and the Vietnamese Tourism Board and wrote travel books when that was still a thing. Thanks for nothing, TripAdvisor.

Karen Sandrelli

Director, Finance

Karen is a Chartered Accountant who is extremely popular around Evans Hunt. She is the numbers wiz who makes sure everyone gets paid and receives benefits. “Three cheers for Karen!” echoes through the halls every payday.

January Kohli

Client Partner

January has worked in marketing for over fifteen years, with a focus on interactive since 2005. Having started her career client-side in hotel marketing, she found her way into the agency world way back before Web 2.0 was a thing.

As a senior project manager and client partner, January translates the client's business needs for the creative and technical teams, and excels in turning strategic plans into executable tactical programs.

A Fresh Take on Baby Food: Baby Gourmet

A Fresh Take on Baby Food: Baby Gourmet

Our mouths are watering over the launch of our tasty new endeavour for Baby Gourmet organic baby food.

Starting from scratch, we built a website for our client that’s beautiful and usable – bilingual, responsive and showcasing their diverse line of gourmet baby food.

Highlights include a product selector that filters their products by age, ingredient or product type, articles written by their founder Jen Carlson and their in-house dietitian that solve parents’ day-to-day meal decisions, and a “spoon tool” that lets moms know what type of food their babies are ready for.

The site also includes easy recipes for baby and the whole family – who knew you could use baby food in brownies?!

Baby Gourmet also stays connected to its network of moms through the “Mom Talk” page, which streams content from their social channels.

Alberta Family Wellness Initiative: Brain Builders

Oct 20, 2014

We love working with the AFWI on video projects, and we recently completed four additions to the Brain Builders series. Using a combination of animation and video, we elaborate on four chapters of the story of brain development....

Alberta Family Wellness Initiative: Brain Builders

We love working with the AFWI on video projects, and we recently completed four additions to the Brain Builders series. Using a combination of animation and video, we elaborate on four chapters of the brain development story.

Following the international success of the Core Story of Brain Development video, these four new videos explore in greater detail the subjects of brain architecture, serve and return, toxic stress and air traffic control. These short vignettes are a great resource for anyone in healthcare, justice, education or government, for parents and grandparents, or for anyone who has ever been a child.

Revive The Glory With An Epic National Cheer

This summer, as our Olympic athletes approach their destination at the Parade of Heroes in Calgary, our nation will rise up together in a national cheer so epic it rattles the Internet, spills into the streets, and demonstrates to the world that there is no greater glory than celebrating Canada and Canadian athletes in all their sporting triumph.

Built for the Calgary Hotel Association, the site collected over 54,000 Tweets, Instagrams and Vines using the hashtag #GoCanada into a fun, interactive and highly visual user experience. Visitors who logged in to share on their Facebook and Twitter accounts during the Olympics were entered to win a VIP Winter Games experience in Calgary.

In June, our winner will be at the parade and gala dinner, and sharing some training with a few athletes. Let’s help them feel the rush of a nation’s resounding joy erupting as one boisterous, thundering chorus.

#IAMDOWNTOWN Winter Festivals

Share all that’s magical this season, using the #IAMDOWNTOWN hashtag on Twitter and Instagram, then watch your post get featured on the web. Evans Hunt created the #IAMDOWNTOWN brand campaign for the Calgary Downtown Association in the spring, and so far, the digital platform has been buzzing. The site features season long campaigns, newspaper ads, city of Calgary updates and YOUR downtown moments.

This season, share your festive fun and journey through the city for a chance to win $1000. This awesome opportunity is courtesy of the Calgary Downtown Association. Put more money in your pockets, or gifts in your back seat. Visit the aggregator site for contest rules and details. A holiday events calendar, with show times, is also available to you.

Getting the Gold, And the Silver.

Calgary Economic Development (CED) was recently recognized for outstanding contributions towards Calgary’s economic growth, at the 2013 IEDC Excellence in Economic Development Awards. The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) honours organizations and individuals that are leaders in innovation, creativity and positive change. With more than 4,000 members, IEDC is the largest organization of its kind. They are fully dedicated to helping economic developers in their demanding endeavours, both locally and internationally.

Calgary Economic Development was recognized for promoting economic well-being and improving the quality of life in their community. The CED also received acknowledgment for dedication to continuous growth within itself. The launch of a fully redesigned website won them a Gold Excellence Award at Tuesday’s event. The website was praised for its remarkable usability, dynamic content, and a true resource for Calgarians, business or people interested in moving to Calgary. The website has received 131,922 visits so far in 2013. Evans Hunt is proud.

2 Gold Excellence Awards in Economic Development (General Purpose Website and Special Events category), 1 Silver Excellence Award in the Special Purpose Brochure category and a Bronze Excellence in Annual Reports. Let’s hear it for the winners.

Website Launch: Alberta Securities Commission

Sep 18, 2013

We like people who get the web, understand how it works, and like digging in the dirt. We really like people who know something about coding in the languages listed below. If we could custom-order a developer from the factory...

Website Launch: Alberta Securities Commission

The new Alberta Securities Commission website was reconstructed as the one-stop-shop to fully satisfy internal and external users and stakeholders. Evans Hunt picked up the shortfalls in usability, and went to work on the seven month long project.

The new ASC website sports a clean, almost blog-like template, that’s easy to navigate. Part of the redesign involved recognizing the different needs of page visitors and implementing a high-level content management strategy. The fully responsive website divides its content into two main groups - Investors & Industry Professionals - then provides direct access to content from dropdown tabs at the top of the page. That’s right, not the regular about us, know us, see us deal you’re used to.

Evans Hunt ensured that brand, user and business requirements were fused, simplified or maximized in some cases, to give page visitors the best experience possible.

We didn't do it alone: EHG took care of the strategy, design and testing, while our friends from UX Guys did the information architecture and RefineCo managed the site development.

Stay updated through ASC social feeds, or get all the investor resources you need. "Investment Basics" is a good place to start.

Website Launch: Calgary International Film Festival

Website Launch: Calgary International Film Festival

The new Calgary International Film Festival website, launched on September 6, 2013, unveils a celebration of visual arts and cinematic experiences that represents what CIFF is about. Evans Hunt redesigned and revamped the look and feel of CalgaryFilm.com, giving the space a more sensational feel.

The new fully responsive, touch optimized interface gives site visitors more control in the way they interact with the site. Enhanced high-definition graphics for movie trailers, live social feeds, access to premiere tickets, and other box office hits were some of the main focus for the redesign. A floating utility bar, with easy access to movie schedules and personal "favourites" are some of the other cool features present. App like, you say?